Sunday, April 12, 2009

Phew, it's been quite the month. Here are the moments leading up to Spring Break.

Moment 1:Student 1 had some kind of wound on his ankle, and he peeled off the gauze during class. For some reason unknown to decent humanity, he started smelling the gauze.

Havig: “Did you just smell that again?”Student 2: “You’re smelling that?!”Havig: “Twice!”Student 3: “Ugh, that’s disgusting.”Student 1: “It smells like mentholatum.”Student 2: “Why do you keep doing that?!”The conversation calmed down a bit.Student 2: “There is nothing worse than seeing someone pick off their own scab.”Havig: “It’s worse if they eat it.”Student 2: “Ahhhh!!!”Havig: “Little kids do that.”Student 3: “Thanks a lot. (putting down food) I was going to eat some craisins, but not any more.”

Moment 2:These are all from my 5th period English I class.

“It was supposed to be nice today!”Student wearing shorts while it was snowing outside in response to comments from other students.

“Can you use Law & Order as an example instead? I like that show better.”Student after I used CSI to explain their vocab word, latent.

Student 1: “Hey, I heard you used to be a bit of a chunkster.”Student 2: “Who me? (smiles sheepishly) Yeah.”

A kid switched schools from our district rival school. He was proclaiming that BGHS was way better than Prairie. The student in front of him turned around, looked at him, and swiped his soda bottle onto the floor in response. I just thought it was pretty funny.

Moment 3:And not to be outdone, these moments are from my 1st period English I class.

“Did you fart? ‘Cause you just blew me away.”This, apparently is a pick up line. No word yet on how well it works.“What are you trying to say? Use your words. You’re not five.”One student to another student who was gesturing to another student.

Moment 4:One student in my 4th period class uttered these words of brilliance in an explanation of me.“I think I figured you out. You have two emotions: sarcasm and annoyance, and that’s it. No sympathy, sadness, depression, anger. Well, annoyance can lead to anger. But still, no happy or anything. Just sarcasm and annoyance.

I have to say, I have never heard anyone so succinctly explain me. I’m not sure if my mom knows me that well.

Wish us all luck as we tackle the last few WASL tests for the year. Have a great week!

The Havig

Me in non-teacher attire

English Class Moments of Awesomeness

The idea for this blog originated a few years ago while I was sharing funny things that my students said and did in class with my friends. My students crack me up all the time, and I enjoy sharing their hilarity with others. Originally, I posted ECMOA on my MySpace page, but the audience was limited. In an effort to expand and try out some different technology, I decided to start an official ECMOA blog. I hope you enjoy it.

Currently, I'm ...

watching the 5th season of The Office. Amazing!

watching the first season of Parks and Rec. Also amazing!

STILL boycotting the 7th Harry Potter book because I think it's stupid that J.K. is simply killing off a bunch of characters. Like I tell my Creative Writing students, blowing everything up (or killing everyone off) is NOT resolution. What did the owl ever do to you J.K Rowling?!

so annoyed with Rowling's crappy 7th book that I even refused to watch the 6th movie.

really enjoying my classes. My students are pretty fantastic so far. Definitely some great material for the ol' blog.

About Hav

I'm an English teacher at a public high school, a gig that I've been doing for around 7! years now. I currently also teach our school's Leadership class. I'm an avid writer, but I don't seem to have enough time to read "for fun" books, as I like to call them. The grading seems to get in the way of such joyous endeavors. I also coach our school’s Knowledge Bowl team if any of you are doubting my extreme nerdiness. Also, if any of you are curious, the Hav part of my name rhymes with mob (as in the angry, torch carrying kind), or like you’re laughing, Ha Ha Havig.